Jonestown is seared into the American psyche as one the darkest tragedies of the modern era, where 918 people “drank the Kool Aid” and ended their lives under the command of cult leader Jim Jones.

On Nov. 18, 1978, 909 members of the Peoples Temple cult, led by Reverend Jim Jones, committed mass suicide at Jonestown, their Guyana-based settlement. Additional victims, including the late Calif… ...

The site of a chilling cult massacre, which resulted in the deaths of over 900 people nearly half a century ago, has been ...

A total of 918 people died at Jonestown, including five from the airstrip ambush and four from another location. Nearly a third of the deaths were children. In the wake of the airstrip ambush, Jones ...

Hours after the shooting, hundreds of people were killed on the Jonestown commune. Photograph by David Hume Kennerly, Getty Images Some had managed to escape death in those final hours, however.

The Jonestown massacre in 1978 left more than 900 dead in Guyana, ... 1978 in the shooting of two people on a remote Guyana airstrip.

After the airstrip shooting, Jones summoned his congregation to the compound’s open-air pavilion, telling them that soldiers would soon be “parachuting” into Jonestown to kill everyone.

For nearly 50 years, the site has sat abandoned, but now, Wanderlust Adventures plans to turn the area into a tourist attraction. Tourists will travel from the city of Georgetown to the remote Port ...

On November 18, 1978, 918 members of Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple cult died in Jonestown, Guyana, in the single largest loss of American civilian lives in a deliberate act before 9/11. From the ...

It was the site of the 1978 Jonestown Massacre, in which more than 900 people, including hundreds of children, died after Jones ordered them to drink cyanide mixed with a fruit-flavored beverage.